Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff: remove dead code

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> When `len < 1`, len has to be 0 or negative, emit_line will then remove the
> first character and by then `len` would be negative. As this doesn't
> happen, it is safe to assume it is dead code.
>
> This continues to simplify the code, which was started in b8d9c1a66b
> (2009-09-03,  diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file
> comparison).

We look at line[0] to see if it is '@' before this check, which
would have been wrong if "len < 1" were ever true.

>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> ---
>  diff.c | 8 --------
>  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
> index 79ad91d..c143019 100644
> --- a/diff.c
> +++ b/diff.c
> @@ -1251,14 +1251,6 @@ static void fn_out_consume(void *priv, char *line, unsigned long len)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (len < 1) {
> -		emit_line(o, reset, reset, line, len);
> -		if (ecbdata->diff_words
> -		    && ecbdata->diff_words->type == DIFF_WORDS_PORCELAIN)
> -			fputs("~\n", o->file);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -
>  	if (ecbdata->diff_words) {
>  		if (line[0] == '-') {
>  			diff_words_append(line, len,